ANALYTIC
Title:
Atomic secrets and governmental lies: Nuclear science, politics and security in the Pontecorvo case
Parent:
British journal for the history of science, v.36, pt.4, no.131
Creator:
Turchetti, Simone.
Publication:
New York, 2003
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:
509.05 B77 V.36, PT.4, NO.131
Extent:
p. [389]-415. : ill., facsims., map ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Dr. Benjamin Church, spy: a case of espionage on the eve of the American Revolution
Publication:
Westholme Publishing, Yardley, Pa, 2013.
Notes:
Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. (1734-1778) was a respected medical man and civic leader in colonial Boston who was accused of being an agent for the British in the 1770s, providing compromising intelligence about the plans of the provincial leadership in Massachusetts as well as important information from the meetings of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Despite his eminence as a surgeon and his own correspondence and the numbers of references to him from contemporaries, no known image of him exists and many aspects of his life remain obscure. What we do know is that George Washington accused him of being a traitor to the colonial cause and had him arrested and tried. Claiming his innocence, Church was allowed to leave America on a British vessel in 1778, but it foundered in the Atlantic with all hands lost. The question of whether Dr. Benjamin Church was working for the British has never been conclusively demonstrated, and remains among the mysteries of the American Revolution Includes Appendixes A-F (p. 162-190). Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-211) and index.
Extent:
xii, 211 p.: ill., maps; 24 cm.
